#166 - Chapter 166 Strengthening Defense
A few days passed.
Green Source Base enjoyed a rare few days of peace.
Compared to constantly going out to other cities to find weapons or exterminate entire families, simply going out to find supplies was indeed considered peaceful.
Nothing particularly noteworthy happened during these days.
Everyone continued to work as usual.
The combat team brought back more rare resources.
The defense team also began to venture out of the base to search for common supplies nearby.
The wall had been built to a height of 20 meters in the past few days, and the thickness had reached an astonishing two meters, making it perfectly safe to stand on top of the wall.
It could truly be called a city wall.
The weather had become increasingly cold recently, with temperatures dropping below minus five degrees Celsius.
Team members going outdoors had to wrap themselves up tightly, otherwise they would easily catch a cold or even suffer frostbite.
The personnel who had been building the wall had mostly been transferred indoors to engage in other work.
Zhou Qihang, who had recently joined, was now in a warehouse similar to a workshop, holding a tool in his hand like many others, whittling a wooden stick.
This workshop was engaged in the production of wooden arrows.
He had been rescued here some time ago, and after saying only a few words to the leader, General Qin, he had been left in the hospital ward, leaving him confused for a long time.
Later, the manager surnamed Wang took him to a double room to live with another man.
He also slowly learned more detailed information about the outside world from his roommate.
Because he had been trapped indoors for too long and cut off from the outside world, he still held a glimmer of hope.
He thought that his relatives and friends might still be in some safe zones.
Now that he knew that the whole world seemed to be the same, his last glimmer of hope was shattered.
This made him depressed for two days.
His original physical weakness was mainly caused by hunger. He was given nutrition and intravenous fluids on the day he was rescued, and he quickly recovered the next day. He was then taken to build the wall outdoors with many others here.
Zhou Qihang, once a dignified teacher at a famous university, had become a construction worker, something he had never imagined.
This made him recognize reality.
The world had really changed.
In the following days, his mentality slowly changed, because he had heard the theory of bloodline survival from a newly acquainted friend, and his relatives might still be alive somewhere.
It's just that Green Source Base had no plans to carry out a family search plan.
And so, a few uneventful days passed.
Yesterday, that General Qin called him over again and took out a test paper related to biology and genetics in front of him, asking him to answer it on the spot.
Although puzzled, Zhou Qihang did as he was told.
The questions were very simple for him, the kind where he knew the general answer at a glance.
It only took him less than thirty minutes to complete the leader's test.
After finishing, General Qin didn't say anything, just told him to go back and continue to work hard and live his life.
Leaving him completely confused.
The following days continued in this way.
At this time, in the leader's office in the office building.
Qin Jin was staring at a calendar, deep in thought.
His eyebrows were furrowed, his face was serious, and he had an expression of being ready for anything.
After a long time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and his expression relaxed.
It's coming.
If he remembered correctly, tomorrow would be the second Corpse Mist Day after the apocalypse.
Another disaster for humanity.
No survivor could easily forget such days that caused countless deaths and injuries.
He walked back to his desk chair and sat down, opening a document on the desk.
It listed the names and quantities of many supplies.
The combat team had recently flown out many times in helicopters, bringing back many of the supplies he needed that he hadn't had time to stockpile before.
He wouldn't need to fly out to find them tomorrow.
He would need to assist in the base to resist the impact of the Corpse Mist Day's violent zombies.
The team members had not encountered any mutated zombies again during this period, which made everyone breathe a slight sigh of relief.
It seemed that the one encountered in Yun City was really just a minority.
They were too lazy to delve into or complain about the fact that the boss even knew these things.
This was the world of the strong, right?
Yesterday, Qin Jin tested the newly joined Zhou Qihang, naturally using some relevant subject test questions that he had specially found to test this teacher.
If he was lying, it should be easy to expose him.
The good thing was that this Teacher Zhou seemed to have some ability, and he had no pressure at all with the questions he prepared.
But he didn't give this teacher any preferential treatment for the time being, letting him work like ordinary personnel first, and then deal with it later.
Green Source Base had always maintained a strong defense, and naturally it was not afraid of the upcoming Corpse Mist Day at all.
It was just best to make some preparations in advance, so as not to be too rushed at that time.
During the day today.
Qin Jin had already ordered people to check the wall-climbing ladders, so that they could quickly satisfy multiple people climbing onto the walls in various places for defense at any time.
Many bows and crossbows had been prepared, and in the face of less urgent situations, these long-range cold weapons could be used first, and they could be recycled after the disaster was over.
Guns and ammunition had also been prepared long ago, and could be distributed to the team members at any time.
Other explosives, fire oil, and steel long sticks would not be missed, and there was everything.
It was impossible to lose.
Qin Jin had no worries about this at all.
The reason he had been frowning just now was because he remembered how embarrassed and frightened the survivors were when facing the Corpse Mist Day in his previous life.
Each time, there would be a large reduction in the human population.
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Wan City Base.
In the afternoon.
In a large classroom in a teaching building, there was a small single room separated by various wooden boards and iron sheets.
Brother Chen had just woken up from his sleep.
He was awakened by the unified alarm clock in the classroom.
It was almost time for the shelter to distribute food again, and he couldn't miss it.
Last night was another normal night of defending against the zombie attack, and as a veteran of the night defense team, he naturally worked most of the night again.
It's just that compared to the high-intensity labor required in the past, it had been much better recently.
Now the walls of Wan City Base had been increased to more than 9 meters high!
Recently, they had begun to no longer need to drive away zombies all night like they used to.
Under normal circumstances, zombies simply couldn't stack up.
There were about a thousand zombies surrounding the outside every night, and they didn't seem like that many when they were scattered under their wide and long wall line.
In the past, there was a risk of breaking through the 4-5 meter high walls, but now the nearly 10 meter high walls were really too safe!
When the corpse towers stacked to a height of 4-5 meters, their night defense team members would drive the zombies down again.
Much more comfortable and less laborious than before.
Don't think about killing all the zombies below every night, it's simply unrealistic.
Every time they worked hard to kill hundreds or thousands, after dealing with them the next day, the same number would come out of nowhere and surround their walls at night.
Think about the population of 20 million in Yang City in the past.
Their hundred or so night defense team members should save some energy.
Even if they killed a thousand every night, they might not be able to kill them all even if they killed until they were old.
Think about the population of 2 billion in Hua Country.
Just go to bed.
(End of this chapter)
